I did receive the two Moderna vacs at the beginning, but refused the booster once so many details began to come out about serious long-term effects in wayyyy too many cases for me to feel secure about it. I never have had Covid throughout this confusing jungle of controversy, thank God. I do get annual flu vaccine.

You do you, but I'm betting my life on medicine knowing better than rumors.

Dear MaryAnn,

There are hundreds of studies showing the vaccines are safe even in children, let alone in adults. They are safer than older vaccines with live virus, which many immunocompromised people could not take for obvious reason.
It is a fallacy to think that because someone is vaccinated and got infected, then it must be that the vaccine is wrong somehow. The vaccine is not a sterilising vaccine, it cannot prevent all infections. But the vaccine is quite efficient at preventing severe disease. A quick search through Nature and PubMed will find hundreds of well performed studies on this.
Also, some people, due to work, are exposed to SARSCOV-2 much more than others, so their risk of getting infected is exponentially higher than for the average person. So even if they have the vaccine, they might get infected. The good part in vaccinated is that they are at a substantially lower risk for severe disease as compared to unvaccinated.
Another point to make is that people are differently susceptible to pathogens. Some are lucky and do not get easily infected with this virus. Some are very susceptible to this virus and get infected even at small dose.
It is good that your daughter is vaccinated. If she had symptoms while being vaccinated, research shows she would, most likely, have been much worse without the vaccines.
I understand you might hold scepticism for this vaccine due to the new technology, but this is not new technology and it is amazing that we have it. Soon they will use mRNA vaccines to treat cancers and who knows, maybe this will be a breakthrough for a cure for MPNs.
I had Covid-19 in March 2020, before the vaccines were developed, and I can tell you that at age 38 it almost killed me and it permanently disabled me. I wish we had a vaccine then. My partner developed 2 autoimmune diseases after the same infection. We were both young and conventionally healthy, and unvaccinated because there was no Covid-19 vaccine in spring 2020. Covid-19, the illness, is both an immunopathology and a coagulation disease, it is not something to wish on anymore, irrespective of what some say.

So all in all, we should be happy that there is the option for the vaccine, given that the vaccine is objectively reducing disease severity in vaccinated.

Best regards,
Tatiana

I always find it interesting to hear of so many people who faithfully have taken all of the vaccines, but then get Covid anyway. My daughter for one; she has had two positive Covid tests and been ill each time after all of the shots were required to keep her job. This is why many people complied, not because they felt the vaccines were safe.

I have had COVID shot and flu shot a week apart. I'm all in favor of prevention. I had the flu about 25 years ago and nearly died, the one year I missed the flu shot.